UI/UX Design Intern - 2024 Uganda

About Us: Sadja WebSolutions is a leading digital agency specializing in custom website and mobile app development, along with innovative digital marketing strategies. We help companies worldwide enhance their online presence and ROI through expert design, development, and marketing solutions.

Objective: Design amazing user experiences to solve customer problems by bringing together user experience and creative design. The ultimate goal of the internship is to retain the best candidate after the training period and offer them a full-time job.

Internship Duration: 4 months

Role Overview: As a UX Design Intern, you will be responsible for creating and promoting the vision of user experience design and strategy. You will facilitate strategic, customer-centric decision-making and work across business units to build relationships that help the UX design effort succeed. You will be responsible for delivering beautiful and intuitive solutions, enhancing the design and usability of Chubb’s digital solutions, and guiding user-centered methodologies from strategy, research, design, to user testing.

Scope:

• Oversee and support the UX process and implementation of projects associated with different business units.
  
• Develop and deliver a reusable visual design and user experience framework to be used across business units.
  
• Lead an iterative design process by illustrating design ideas using wireframes, storyboards, process flows, prototypes, and sitemaps.
  
• Establish user-centric design practices. Conceptualize interfaces, visualize digital experiences or applications, and understand how each touchpoint is connected to the full user experience.
  
• Work with business teams to analyze quantitative and qualitative user research and synthesize customer data from many sources to identify opportunities and recommend user-centric design directions with an eye towards both feasibility and economy.
  
• Conduct user testing and qualitative sessions to improve engagement, usability, and affinity.
  
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards.
  
• Stay current on emerging industry trends and the competitive landscape to provide insight on ways to improve visual design, usability, website functionality, and holistic experiences.
  
• Connect design strategy to business results.
  
• Leverage existing best-practices to influence IT development processes as we develop new experiences.
  
• Maintain existing UX/UI style guides.
  

Desired Skills and Experience

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing mobile and web applications (preferred but not required for interns).
  
• A strong portfolio demonstrating past design experiences and deliverables is a must.
  
• Experience with an iterative design process, and a recognition that the first design is rarely the final design.
  
• A proven track record of graphic design/web technologies and prototyping tools.
  
• An excellent grasp of design programs and tools, Sketch App specifically.
  
• Insurance or financial services and digital transformation domain knowledge is a plus.
  
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Computer Science, Design, Fine Arts, or equivalent combination of education and demonstrated UI/UX experience (preferred but not required for interns).
  

Benefits for Interns:

• Gain hands-on experience in UX design within a leading company.
  
• Work closely with experienced professionals and receive mentorship.
  
• Opportunity to contribute to real projects and see the impact of your work.
  
• Enhance your portfolio with meaningful projects and deliverables.
  
• Access to company resources and tools for professional development.
  
• Networking opportunities within the company and industry.
  
• Potential for a full-time job offer for the best candidate at the end of the internship.
  
• No salary is provided, but an allowance can be offered to cover basic expenses.